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Violence and over-incarceration a grim reality for Indigenous women
The statistics are grim: Indigenous women make up 4 per cent of the Canadian population yet account for roughly 40 per cent of the female... -
Banners in Allan Gardens honour missing and murdered Indigenous women
In Allan Gardens, 20-foot-tall charred cedar logs hold 13 large red banners aloft. Visitors can walk underneath them in this installation reminiscent of Christo and... -
You can now study toy invention in Toronto
Have you ever looked at the gotta-have-it toy that flies off store shelves and thought: I could’ve come up with that? Well, here’s your chance... -
Stan Williams chronicles Indigenous resistance to colonialism in Canada
THIS IS INDIAN LAND by Stan Williams as part of Contact Photography Festival at Black Cat Showroom (1785 St. Clair West). To May 31. contactphoto.com.... -
Hot Docs 2019 opens with a hard conversation on colonial violence
NÎPAWISTAMÂSOWIN: WE WILL STAND UP (Tasha Hubbard). 98 minutes. Apr 25, 9:45 pm, Hot Docs Cinema Apr 27, 1 pm, TIFF 2 May 4, 10... -
Hot Docs review: Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
DOCTOR, LAWYER, INDIAN CHIEF (Carol Geddes, Canada). 28 minutes. Rating: NNN Screening in Hot Doc’s Redux program, this 1986 short film from Carol Geddes profiles... -
Hot Docs Review: Merata: How Mum Decolonised The Screen
MERATA: HOW MUM DECOLONISED THE SCREEN (Hepi Mita, New Zealand) 88 minutes. Rating: NNNN This isn’t just a straightforward, albeit fascinating, biography of the world’s... -
Hot Docs review: Propaganda: The Art Of Selling Lies
PROPAGANDA: THE ART OF SELLING LIES (Larry Weinstein, Canada/Germany). 90 minutes. Rating: NNN It’s difficult to distill the history of propaganda, including Alexander the Great... -
Cannabis courses focusing on science and business sprout up in Ontario
It seems fitting that the day after Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg launched Houseplant, a recreational cannabis company “focused on product and quality, education and... -
Interview: Santee Smith becomes McMaster University’s chancellor
When I tell Santee Smith, the incoming McMaster University chancellor, that I don’t remember who my chancellor was during my time at university, she audibly... -
Where are all the Indigenous fashion models?
After fashion editors and style influencers were seated at the Gardiner Museum on February 6, Juno-nominated singer Iskwe emerged to kick off designer Lesley Hampton’s... -
Design students team up with the Regent Park Sewing Circle
OCAD University industrial design student Mads Cogen thought about the entire TTC commuter experience when she collaborated with the Regent Park Sewing Circle on her... -
U of T wants to build a new planetarium downtown
At the end of October, the University of Toronto’s department of astronomy and astrophysics unveiled an idea to boldly do what no one has done... -
Dub poet Lillian Allen is launching a creative writing program
Lillian Allen is about to fly to Belize, but before she begins her night-before-an-early-flight preparations, she is passionately discussing how her spoken word and dub... -
Indigenous architects design a sovereign future
If an Indigenous architect designs a Burger King, does that make it an Indigenous Burger King? While it sounds like a set-up without a punchline,...
